Nintendo of America has been ordered to pay a small east Texas gaming company $21 million. Apparently the US heavyweight was infringing on a patent while designing controllers for Wii and GameCube.

The Associated Press reports that a federal jury ruled in favour of Anascape Ltd. (quiet at the back).

The lawsuit was originally filed way back in 2006. A Nintendo spokesman said the company will seek an appeal and ...

Shigeru Miyamoto has given the US some love, saying that American indie developers are better than those in his native country of Japan.

"I think America has always been better at creating unique products," said Miyamoto to Wired when speaking about the imminent launch of WiiWare in America.

"In Japan, the technology required to create videogames tends to be concentrated in the bigger corporations. Game publishers tend ...

WiiWare, often hailed as Nintendo's answer to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network, offers original downloadable titles from both independent and established developers starting today in the US. Six titles will be available from launch, compared to nine in Japan, with new games to be added each Monday.

WiiWare games are downloadable from the WiiWare section of the Wii Shop Channel. Users must redeem Wii Points, which ...

Mac manufacturer Apple filed a patent in November 2006 for a 3D remote control system for its Apple TV set-top box, it was revealed today.

The patent describes a system that can detect the location of the device and what it's pointing at, according to Apple Insider. Wii Remote, anyone?

"[The] remote control system also can include optional console," the filing apparently states.

"Console can have controller that can perform ...

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has dismissed the threat of a Microsoft manufactured Wii Remote being released for Xbox 360, claiming that it won't be a threat as long as Nintendo continues to offer new surprises.

"All I can say today is, it is not that easy to develop software which leverages the characteristics of Wii Remote," he said in a fiscal review.

"We are not concerned about what other companies may do but rather more ...

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has hinted that Nintendo is looking into a solution to the problem of people running out of storage space on Wii.

Speaking last week to investors about Nintendo's latest fiscal term, Iwata was asked whether the memory situation could be improved. He replied:

"Statistically speaking, it is true that there are a small number of customers who feel that the flash memory is too small, while many others ...

Valve, arguably one of the best developers of games with dirty, great big guns, has a keen interest in making a game for kids.

"There's a lot of people at Valve who are parents and would love to make a game for kids," Valve's Doug Lombardi told us recently.

"We all play the Wii a lot and we think that the proper way for Valve to approach the Wii would be to make something cool designed specifically for it," he added when quizzed ...

Capcom's senior director of strategy Christian Svensson has said that the omission of Bionic Commando on Virtual Console is down to Nintendo."Guys, you have to take this up with Nintendo. This is NOT, repeat NOT, a Capcom issue," he wrote on the official Capcom forums.

"Please remember, Nintendo calls the shots on what goes up on VC, not third parties."

Bionic Commando producer Ben Judd also chimed in on the possibility of seeing ...

A new 'Nintendo Channel' will hit UK Wii consoles on May 30, Nintendo has confirmed in its latest UK release schedule (it hits the US on May 12, same day as WiiWare).

The channel, which is already out in Japan as the 'Everybody's Nintendo Channel', will allow you to keep "up-to-date on all the latest information for past, present and future games on all Nintendo platforms."

We also believe it'll allow you to review Wii Software ...

Interplay has revealed that it is partnering with franchise creator Doug TenNapel to work on a new Earthwork Jim game, TV series and film.

Other than the tentative title of Earthworm Jim 4, no other details have been confirmed. TenNapel will serve as a creative consultant on all of the projects.

Earlier in the month, Earthworm Jim was one of a number of IPs owned by Interplay that were flagged up as getting the revival ...